ANTONY GORMLEY with Allie Biswas
Antony Gormley’s career spans thirty-five years, beginning with his first solo exhibition, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, in 1981.
May 17, 2016
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Viktoria Modesta Talks Tech Style & Her Work at MIT
Performance artist Viktoria Modesta’s black prosthetic leg, which she wears during her music video Prototype, currently showing at MFA’s “#techstyle” exhibit, raises questions about “how a different body silhouette can provoke unexpected emotions,” says Modesta.
May 10, 2016
The Evolution of the First Bionic Pop Artist
Now a famed musical artist, innovation enthusiast and bionic woman Viktoria Modesta’s journey to the spotlight has been anything but ordinary.
May 9, 2016
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Keeril Makan makes Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Persona’ sing
In 2007, composer Keeril Makan began practicing a meditation form known as Vipassana, which involved long stretches of silence, and during retreats he would sometimes go a week without speaking.
April 29, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/
At M.I.T., Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art
As a graduate student at the respected M.I.T. Media Lab, Marcelo Coelho collaborated with the artist Vik Muniz to help him achieve a poetic and technical feat that teases the imagination: drawing a picture of a castle on a single … Continued
March 4, 2016
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Morton Feldman’s epic String Quartet No. 2, all in a day’s work for Flux Quartet
The frame music puts around time is also a magnifying glass. In an everyday context, 5½ hours might be an unremarkable interval; in the context of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, it was practically an epoch.
February 29, 2016
www.artforum.com
Vik Muniz, HIGH MUSEUM OF ART ATLANTA
Best known for his elaborate copies of iconic images from pop culture and the Western art-historical canon, São Paulo–born artist Vik Muniz is now the recipient of a midcareer retrospective, consisting of 120 photographs and three sculptures, dating from 1989, … Continued
January 20, 2016
Tomás Saraceno: Aerocene
For COP21 Paris, Saraceno presents at the Grand Palais Aerocene, the first of a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world.
December 4, 2015
http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/
From Russia With Love: A Look at Dasha Zhukova’s Burgeoning Arts Philanthropy
When Harpers Bazaar dubbed Moscow-born, LA-raised Dasha Zhukova the “newly crowned queen of the international arts scene,” we couldn’t help but pay attention.
December 1, 2015
Dasha Zhukova Gives MIT $1Million to Endow Artist Residency
The gift from Dasha Zhukova provides support to endow a vibrant, ongoing residency organized by the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) open to creators from art, architecture, or design.
November 3, 2015
Dasha Zhukova Gives $1M to MIT to Start an Artist Residency
Russian philanthropist and art collector Dasha Zhukova will give $1 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to endow a brand new visiting artist program at the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, it was announced today.
October 30, 2015
www.artforum.com
MIT Establishes Visiting Artist Program With $1 Million Gift from Dasha Zhukova
Dasha Zhukova is a Russian American philanthropist, entrepreneur, and art collector as well as the founder of Garage Museum for Contemporary Art in Moscow.
October 30, 2015
https://www.bostonglobe.com
A photographer and a physicist team up
Ellenbogen, an underwater photographer, and Adams, a theoretical physicist at MIT, were on their way to Patagonia, where they were scheduled to teach a three-week class on marine photography and also shoot a breeding ground for elephant seals.
October 28, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/
Review: ‘Persona,’ an Opera Based on the Ingmar Bergman Film
The American composer Keeril Makan, far from being intimidated, was clearly inspired to take it on, judging from the effectiveness of his “Persona,” a chamber opera with a libretto by the director Jay Scheib, closely adapted from Bergman’s screenplay.
October 26,2015
http://www.wsj.com
‘Persona,’ ‘Refuse the Hour’ and ‘Heretical Angel’ Reviews
Three different interpretations of chamber opera, not one of which belongs in a conventional opera house, came to New York last week.
October 26, 2015
http://www.newyorker.com
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS: “PERSONA”
The music of Keeril Makan, a professor at M.I.T., is empowered by modern technology but haunted by a spirit of immemorial darkness.
October 23, 2015
National Sawdust to Premiere Keeril Makan and Jay Scheib’s PERSONA
On October 23 & 24, Persona, a new opera from composer Keeril Makan and adaptor / librettist / director Jay Scheib, will make its world premiere at National Sawdust.
October 16, 2015
55. Michael Render (aka Killer Mike)
As part of the national debate over race relations, Render has appeared on CNN and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and has guest-lectured at MIT—speaking out on #BlackLivesMatter, media stereotypes against African American males, and police brutality.
October 1, 2015
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Musicians revealed in ‘Uncovered’
Beiser sounds like she’s reaching deep into these songs to find personal expression within their boundaries, as would a player of classical repertory.
September 26, 2015
http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/
What Does Mellon See In MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology?
“Since its inception in 2012, CAST has provided grants for more than 20 artist residencies and collaborative projects with MIT faculty and students, 12 cross-disciplinary courses and workshops, two concert series, and numerous multimedia projects, lectures, and symposia. This is no … Continued
May 7, 2015
http://www.wsj.com
Young Guru Is the Most Influential Man in Hip-Hop You’ve Never Heard Of
Hip-hop’s most trusted sound engineer—he’s worked with Jay-Z for the past 16 years—is lending his talents to Silicon Valley and the next generation of sound innovators.
April 30, 2015
http://www.avclub.com/
Killer Mike to deliver killer lecture at MIT
Killer Mike views rap as social activism, and never shies away from sharing his opinions on race and abuses of power.
April 22, 2015
http://www.artnews.com/
MIT’S CENTER FOR ART, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY RECEIVES $1.5 M. GIFT FROM MELLON FOUNDATION
MIT’s Center for Art, Science, & Technology (CAST) has been given $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the purpose of supporting the center’s “multidisciplinary creative experimentation and integration of the arts across all areas of MIT.”
April 22, 2015
www.artforum.com
MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology Gets $1.5 Million
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given MIT’s Center for Art, Science, and Technology $1.5 million, bringing its total support for the center to $3 million since 2012.
April 22, 2015
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Foundation gives $1.5m to MIT’s CAST
The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) is getting another $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
April 22, 2015